April 10th, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes, comic books shops and via digital now, on news stands next Tuesday!!: Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) Remembering Gerry Gersten (John Ficarra, MAD Executive Editor) The Fundalini Pages (Kenny Keil, Ward Sutton, Jonathan Edwards, Bob Eckstein, Bob Staake, John Kerschbaum, Sam Sisco, Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla, Rich Powell, Christian Alsis, Alejandro Rivas, Jeff Kruse, Steve Silver, Jose Garibaldi, Kevin Pope) World Flags (Writer: Desmond Devlin) Rough One: A Star Bores Snorer (David Richards, Tom Richmond) A MAD Look at YouTube (Sergio Aragonés, Colorist: Tom Luth) No Donald! (Kenny Keil, Sam Viviano and Jim Campbell) The MAD Vault- Duck Edwing D.O.A. (Duck… READ MORE
April 7th, 2017 | Posted in General
Q: Did you have a mentor? Where you a mentor? A: I guess that depends on your definition of “mentor”. To me, that means someone who has actively helped teach you and guide you in your career and goals, as opposed to just being an inspiration with their own work and career. The latter are more “influences” than mentors. I have been lucky to have had (and have) a few people in my life that I would say fit the mentor mold. The first would have to be Steve Fasen and his brother Gary, who gave me my first job in art as a caricaturist… READ MORE
April 7th, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yahoo Movies has an exclusive sneak peek of MAD’s parody of “Rogue One”, entitled “Rough One”. Written by David Richards with art by me, you’ll just have to wait for the issue to come out on April 19th to read the other 5 pages of stupidity. READ MORE
April 6th, 2017 | Posted in News
I recently closed down my combo caricatures and airbrush tattoo booth at Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America and rebranded it “Paint ‘n Pixels”, a caricature booth that offers either traditional airbrush caricatures or ones done 100% digitally… both for the same price. The traditional caricatures are our usual originals done with either graphite or marker (depending on the artist) and airbrush, where you get one original on 12×16 paper. The digital verison is done using ClipStudio Paint on a 16″ Wacom Workstudio Pro, and you getth both a high resolution 12 x 16 print and a screen resolution version either emailed or messaged… READ MORE
April 5th, 2017 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Big deadline on a book job this week, so no time for a new SotW today. Here’s the pencil sketch (ok, it’s digital put still a sketch) of a job I did for SI Kids back in November. Final art below. READ MORE
April 4th, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Paste Magazine has an exclusive sneak peek at the cover (by Mark Fredrickson shown above) and one of the articles in the upcoming MAD #545… a parody of the classic children’s book “No David!” entitled “No Donald!”, written by Kenny Keil with art by MAD‘s art director Sam Viviano and colorist Jim Campbell. Here’s the first page: MAD certainly has been on a kid’s book parody kick lately. Check out the rest on Paste Magazine’s website. READ MORE
April 3rd, 2017 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Back in MAD #513 (Feb 2012) I did the art for a “MAD 20” piece written by Kit Lively & Scott Nickel making fun of the big bag of crazy that was Charlie Sheen. I have this caricature of him on my comic-con table banner and it often stops people in their tracks because of the funny mash-up concept. The art called for both a main image and spots of mock comic book covers for “The Sheen Lantern”. Pencil rough and close ups of the comic covers below: READ MORE
April 2nd, 2017 | Posted in Mailbag
Whoops… looks like I have run out of mailbag questions. Well, I have been asked and answered over 500 of them since starting this blog. It’s entirely possible that people have run out of questions. There are only so many questions people might have about freelancing, illustration, MAD, etc. So maybe this feature has run its course. I guess that’s up to you. So, if you have questions concerning cartooning, illustration, freelancing, MAD Magazine or other similar subjects I’ll be happy to answer them as best I can. E-mail me your questions and I’ll try and answer them here! READ MORE
